Re: [patch] target triplet for Microblaze.

[Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>]

On Thursday 18 November 2010 17:43:50, Michael Eager wrote:

> MicroBlaze is a proprietary processor developed by Xilinx and, AFAIK,
> they have not licensed it to other manufacturers.  



> Xilinx is the only possible specification which meets the definition
> in Autobook.

That can't be right.

" cpu
     The type of processor used on the system. (...)

 manufacturer
     A somewhat freeform field which indicates the manufacturer of the system. (...)"

It's manufacturer of the system, not of the CPU.
Note "used on the system", therefore cpu != system.  And "system"
is really a broad term.  AFAIK, it's really a freeform field in
practice, so you should be able to put anything there.  For example,
if one takes xilink's toolchain sources (the gpl bits), fork / patch
them for some reason, and build / distribute them oneself, one
might want to legitimately change the manufacturer field to
avoid confusion.

-- 
Pedro Alves